The formal site of the Baha’ism organization published an article entitled “woman and peace” and investigated the importance of women’s cooperation managing the community and declared its reason as women’s seeking peace.
“The Baha’i works have clearly declared that women’s participation in managing the world affairs is necessary because women are naturally seeking for peace and peace is the founder of the future of humanity.[1]” the Baha’i authors continued to say in the article narrating some statements by Abdul Baha that the outcome of the equality between men and women and women’s participation in managing the world is the expansion of peace. As Abdul Baha says: “If the equality between men and women is fulfilled across the world, undoubtedly the world will be gotten rid of war…”
It is extremely difficult for mothers to send their apples of their eyes to the battlefield. If there is equality between men and women, the war will be ended because women are the barriers for wars. It is undoubted.[2]”
So, the deceptive slogans of Baha’ism must be investigated:
- The lack of women’s participation at Baha’ism leadership: The Baha’i believes that the condition for development and establishment of peace is women’s participation at managing the world while the participation of women in the highest level of managerial posts of the Baha’ism organization is forbidden.
“اما بیت العدل بِنصوصِ قاطعه فی شَریعةِ الله اختصَّ بالرجال حکمه مِن عند الله و سَیظهر هذه الحکمة کظُهور الشَّمس فی رابعه النّهار”[۳]
Also, the position of the guardian of the faith which was to take over the permanent chairmanship of the universal house of justice generation after generation has been assigned just to men. As Abdul Baha says in his will:
“و مِن بعده بکراً بعد بکر”[۴]
- In Baha’ism, women’s are denounced for being separated from their apples of their eyes: Abdul Baha believes that women will cause war to be ended because it is difficult for them to send their apples of their eyes to battlefields; but; in Baha’ism, women are deprived of leadership.
[۱] Narrated by the formal site of the Baha’ism organization.
[۲] Ibid.
[۳] Abbas Effendi, some excerpts from Abdul Baha’s Makatib, the electronic copy, Vol. 1, No. 38, p. 77.
[۴] Abbas Effendi, the tablets of will, the national assembly of the Baha’is of Pakistan, Sterling Garden Road publishing house, Nov. 1960 A.D., pp. 11-12.
